Jacob Sullum asks why the president doesn’t pardon more drug offenders: [Obama] has implicitly acknowledged that many federal prisoners are serving unjustifiably long sentences. In 2010 he signed the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduc...

For drug war skeptics and civil libertarians, Wednesday was a good day. For law enforcement hawks, it was, potentially, pretty terrifying. Speaking before the US Sentencing Commission—the body charged with drawing up sentencing rule...

Better late than never, I guess. And better
baby steps than no steps at all. That's a fair reaction to the
White House's announcement that President Obama commuted the
sentences of eight men and women who each had served more than 1...